We demand a recount! The Takoma Park city election process is unfair. Merely because we announced our candidacy the day after the election was held, our name did not appear on the ballot! This is blatant discrimination against the temporaly-challenged and those within the procrastinist lifestyle. We will take this to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Before they are overturned by the courts, the results are as expected. All the uncontested candidates won, Bruce Williams is now our new mayor, despite the last minute write-in campaign by gun-enthusiast Richard Joy, who garnered 21 votes. Dan Robinson won the Ward 3 race over Bridget Bowers. The percentages (re: Seth Grimes contest, see our last post) were 66% for Dan (we predicted 65-70%), 31% for Bridget (we predicted 25-30%. 3% of the vote was for write-ins.

Congratulations to the new mayor, new councilmembers, and re-elected incumbents. Let the post-election honeymoon begin!

The most entertaining aspect of the election is the write-in vote. We’ll post the more boring results later.

Oh, and many thanks to the prescient or perhaps time-traveling voter who cast a vote for us!

Gilbert is the pseudonym of a hard-bitten, hard-drinking, long-time Takoma Park resident who maintains the granolapark blog.
Gilbert and William L. Brown — Granola Park's mild-mannered chief of staff, researcher, and drink pourer — have never been seen in the same place at the same time.